This is an analysis of the poem The Bungalows that begins with:

Impatient as we were for all of them to join us,
The land had not yet risen into view: gulls had swept the gray steel towers away ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcde bcfaghdhi XeeddijXiX cficekleeieX fdmdnimoli immfiakXiX npejaaogibmpejio
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,10,12,10,10,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101101100011 01111100011110111001 1101001011001100101 10100100010011011011110110010 110001010101010111010101 11001011101100101 1101101 0011110101 010101111011100010 1000101101001 0110100111 00101101010 01111110110111 01111 11110100010101101 01001011110110 010010101111011 0100100100100010 1010101000110 0110111111011 0110010100010 01010111001 001111110000 00111001101 010101011011 110100111011011 00101000110101100010 0010011011000101010 100010101011 010011010 111110011 011010 10001110101 01010101010111 0011111010 11111001111 01010101001010110110 1110110100010 010000100100000001 1011100100011 10101001000011010101001 100101101010010 101001000001001 11100100101101010 1001111011 1101101110101 101010 1100100110111010111 111100101010010 011010010011010010 111100110110110 110110010 1010010101 001101110011 111010001110 1011010101 10111101110 101011001 11111100110010 0010000101100101 010100100111 110101101101101 101110011111010101 111001010101010 110111101100001 011100101010010 0110100010111101 1011100101001100 11010011110101010 011000111110100100 110111101101101 110111110101 1010111011010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 597
  • Average number of words per stanza: 101
  • Amount of lines: 73
  • Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines immortal is repeated).

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  • summary of The Bungalows;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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